Etudes de Litterature, Ancienne & Etrangere: Herodote. Lucrece. Ciceron. Tibere. Plutarque. de La Corruption Des Lettres Romaines Sous L'Empire. Romans Grecs ...

Études de Littérature, Ancienne & Étrangère

Etudes de Litterature, Ancienne & Etrangere: Herodote. Lucrece. Ciceron. Tibere. Plutarque. de la Corruption Des Lettres Romaines Sous l'Empire. Romans Grecs...

"Plusieurs événements de l'histoire perdent de leur valeur avec 
le temps, bien que certaines circonstances minimes en aient 
une grande, et il faut une bonne capacité de jugement chez un 
écrivain pour les distinguer." Jonathan Swife. "Les faux 
critiques invectivent les faux esprits, de la même manière que 
charlatans et imposteurs nous incitent à faire attention aux 
contrefaçons et décrient les autres fourberies, uniquement pour 
faire davantage de place aux leurs." Alexander Pope.

Pensées sur différents sujets (octobre 1706)

Epitre d'Heloise a Abelard . Traduite de M. Pope, et mise en vers par M. Feutry. Seconde edition.Date de l'edition originale: 1758Titre original: Eloisa to AbelardCe livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.

Épître d'Héloïse a Abélard Traduite de M. Pope, Et Mise En Vers

Perhaps no other great poet in English Literature has been so differently judged at different times as Alexander Pope. Accepted almost on his first appearance as one of the leading poets of the day, he rapidly became recognized as the foremost man of letters of his age. He held this position throughout his life, and for over half a century after his death his works were considered not only as masterpieces, but as the finest models of poetry. With the change of poetic temper that occurred at the beginning of the nineteenth century Pope's fame was overshadowed. The romantic poets and critics even raised the question whether Pope was a poet at all. And as his poetical fame diminished, the harsh judgments of his personal character increased. It is almost incredible with what exulting bitterness critics and editors of Pope have tracked out and exposed his petty intrigues, exaggerated his delinquencies, misrepresented his actions, attempted in short to blast his character as a man.

The Rape of the Lock

Pope's life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George I. he was chiefly a translator, and made much money by satisfying the French-classical taste with versions of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey." Under George I. he also edited Shakespeare, but with little profit to himself; for Shakespeare was but a Philistine in the eyes of the French-classical critics. But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of a deepening interest in the real issues of life distracted men's attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan. As Pope's genius ripened, the best part of the world in which he worked was pressing forward, as a mariner who will no longer hug the coast but crowds all sail to cross the storms of a wide unknown sea. Pope's poetry thus deepened with the course of time, and the third period of his life, which fell within the reign of George II., was that in which he produced the "Essay on Man, " the "Moral Essays, " and the "Satires." These deal wholly with aspects of human life and the great questions they raise, according throughout with the doctrine of the poet, and of the reasoning world about him in his latter day, that "the proper study of mankind is Man."

An Essay on Man

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.

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